'''Mel Tappan''' ('''Melrose H. Tappan III''')(1933 - 1980), is considered to be the "grand daddy" of the [[Preparedness]] movement<ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014</ref> as the editor of the newsletter ''Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter''. Tappan wrote ''[[Survival Guns]]'' and ''[[Tappan on Survival]]''.

'''Mel Tappan''' ('''Melrose H. Tappan III''')(1933 - 1980), is considered to be the "grand daddy" of the [[Preparedness]] movement<ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014</ref> as the editor of the newsletter ''Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter''. Tappan wrote ''[[Survival Guns]]'' and ''[[Tappan on Survival]]''.

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A graduate of [[Stanford University]], Mr. Tappan was one of the earliest [[survivalist]]s to promote the idea of [[strategic relocation]] to a "[[free state]]" from a more [[liberal]] state. Like [[James Wesley Rawles]] and [[Joel Skousen]], Mr. Tappan advocated creating [[survivalist retreat]]s in [[population density|lightly populated]] [[rural]] regions of the United States.<ref>[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon, excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014</ref>

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A graduate of [[Stanford University]], Mr. Tappan was one of the earliest [[survivalist]]s to promote the idea of [[strategic relocation]] to a "[[free state]]" from a more [[liberal]] state. Like [[James Wesley Rawles]] and [[Joel Skousen]], Mr. Tappan advocated creating [[survivalist retreat]]s in [[population density|lightly populated]] [[rural]] regions of the United States.<ref>[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon,] excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014</ref>

==Books==

==Books==

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Mel Tappan (Melrose H. Tappan III)(1933 - 1980), is considered to be the "grand daddy" of the Preparedness movement[1] as the editor of the newsletter Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter. Tappan wrote Survival Guns and Tappan on Survival.

Books

Continuing Influence on Modern Survivalism

Mr. Tappan's continue to be influential with preparation advocates more than three decades after his untimely passing. In 2009, Tappan on Survival was re-published as a new edition with a foreword written by Bruce D. Clayton. As of December 2014 it ranks in Amazon's top 90,000 books (out of more than 5 million titles.) The seminal work Survival Guns is also back in print.